This isn’t the best photo in the world of Cone Head, but I snapped it on the hurry. Should it stay or should it go, the cone that is! This statue and cone is a popular subject at the moment. Being a grumpy old git, well not that old, this always makes me smile when I see it. It is a constant battle between the authorities and Joe public. It gets my VOTE to stay, it needs to stay. Its a Glasgow thing…. and that’s coming from a Southerner
England, Worthing seafront property.
Three floors up. Victorian white glazed brick wall ( with grime ). Airbourne seeds or maybe bird droppings with seeds, wedged into the mortar courses, the right conditions and a Fern of sorts is produced, growing happily between courses.
This is by far my earliest and largest photographic project. Most times, its better to show one or two pictures. I am taking a chance and showing 20 pictures. The photographs really tell the story and I hope they hold your interest. I managed to capture these pictures early one morning going along the coast road to work.
The Cargo Ship, “The Ice Prince” carrying Timber, ran into trouble in rough sea’s near Portland Bill, England in January 2008. The crew where all rescued by helicopter and lifeboat, before she sank. Timber, 33ft long planks where washed off the Ship causing a Wood Slick running from West (Portland Bill) to East (Beachy Head and beyond) of the English Channel. “This is what I saw that morning”.
These shots taken, were on a beach stretch in Worthing a few odd miles West of Brighton & Hove, England. 2000 tonnes, washed up along the coast causing hazards on the beaches and to the shipping lanes. Anybody lifting timber away were threatened with arrest…
I didn’t go looking for this building, Iv’e past it more times than I can remember and not really taken any notice of it. How could I go past and not snap it up! It was an old stable sighted high up on a hill in Brighton. Could be Regency but probably Victorian. Beuatiful cast moulded dog heads in moulded frame fixed to the stable doors.
The Stable doors, I think its only storage now.
End of stable building. In contrast to this building, a new trendy development has been constructed opposite this image.
These are great mouldings fitted to the stable doors, let the mouldings do the talking. Lovely local history…
Brighton. Famous for being a seaside resort, two pier’s, the Graham Greene novel “Brighton Rock”, Fish & chip’s, sticks of rock. Mods and Rocker’s (Quadrophenia) and much more!
View of The Brighton Pier, formerly ” The Palace Pier”, through the bikes…
Waiting to get into Brightona, the Motor Bike and Scooter Rally.
Vintage Lambretta’s and Vespa’s together looking fine…
More lights and chrome…
Hope you enjoyed the Scooter’s, “I love them”. These vintage models make my modern Scooter look like a toy. My neighbour in the 60’s when I was a small lad, had a Lambretta and he used to take me up and down the road on the back. No helmets then!
Next time, I will throw a few Motor Bikes into the mix…
Had another stroll through Hove cemetery with the “Jack” this afternoon. Found some more interesting monuments, take a look.
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Found this Tomb: The inscriptions are hard to read (zoom in, maybe you can see better) He was a French Noble! As far as I can make out, his stone reads; “Charles Augustus Vicomte Pinon Du Clos De Valmer”, The Last of His Race. The inscription goes on and on and makes interesting reading…
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Charles Augustus Vicomte Pinon Du Clos De Valmer, Family Crest…
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A family Monument, a family history. On this monument, I found a sad read about a lad who died in the African Campaign and is remembered on this stone. My Great Grand Father served in the same campaign in a different regiment! and was featured in BBC documentaries in the 60’s, one of the last surviving solders of that campaign. “Boer War”.
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A brave young man…
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Hove Cemetery. Opened 1882 by Henry Hawkes.
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Just thought, the last picture should be colour, as it was a glorious afternoon…
It’s a dreary sort of day in Hove, so time to add a few more pic’s.
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Side swipe of Brighton Pier. I prefered it when it was the Palace Pier.
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Hove esplanade heading east towards Brighton. Beach huts with City Council offices in back ground on Grand Avenue.
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The Huts after the Storm.
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Early morning stroll with the dog…
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Hove’s Hut’s…
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Early start preparing for the Sunny day ahead…
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End of the esplanade, this is where the Beach Huts finish… Hope you enjoyed my eye’s view.
I took a little stroll with the “Jack” this afternoon, to Hove cemetery North side, to pay my respects to a very dear friend. I went loaded with the camera for a reason “Not a morbid one”. Brighton and Hove cemetery’s carry bag’s of history and my interest lay’s with a certain man. I read a little bit about this man and where he was buried, that’s all I had to go on. As you are all aware burial grounds are huge, so it took me many attempts to find the plot.
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The flint Chapel on the South side heading east, Hove cemetery.
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A couple of visitors enjoying the view’s of Hove from the Chapel. The tower takes on a face like appearance, what do you think!
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One of the Classical monuments in the cemetery.
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This was the Grave that I was looking for. Martin Leonard Landfried.
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What was you doing at 15 yrs of age! I don’t know where he was born ,but he was buried in Hove. When Martin Leonard Landfried was just a lad, he sounded The Charge! The Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. You couldn’t imaging what was going on in his head or what he saw that day…
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This lad made it through the battle at Balaclava and survived to serve, in the Indian Mutiny and retired as a Trumpet Major. Tennyson wrote, “into the valley of Death rode the six hundred“. A lovely piece of history on my doorstep. “God bless him”.
I shall add more to this blogg sometime.
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End of another day West Pier Hove. Part of the Pier collapsed bottom left, now cleared for safety reasons.
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A Boxing day sunset over the West Pier Hove.
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Another “Med” like day in sunny Brighton. My beach when I was a teenager, good memories early 70’s
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I’ve posted a couple of aerial shots of Regency Square Brighton, from a balcony on the 11th Floor Sussex Heights, looking West over to Hove. Regency Square was constructed in 1818 – 1828 on what was called the Belle Vue Field. Individual plots were bought from the developer Joshua Hanson. Covenants were drawn for this development which required owners to repaint the facades every three years and contribute towards the up keep of the enclosure . The Covenants ran for 71 years from 1818 and subsequently taken over after by the Corporation as part of the 1884 Brighton Improvement Act. ( Zoom in and look around the buildings )
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View of, the back of the East Side, of Regency Square. The facades and frontages of these Grade ll listed buildings are fairly well manicured, the rear of these buildings, not so as you can see. Added extensions and new builds cling to the rear running up to road behind. The 1.56 acre gardens in the Square hide the underground car park that was built at a cost of £523.000 and was opened in the Easter of 1969.
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